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The Oregonian (2007) MYSTERIOUSLY FAST SINKING OF BRITANNIC EXPLORED
Why did Britannic plummet 400 feet to the floor of the Aegean Sea despite the many improvements made in her design and construction?...
13th October 2007  
  (1911) BUILDING THE TITANIC
This original picture shows the Titanic under construction in Belfast, certainly in late 1911. Note that three funnels are not yet painted, there is a scaffolding around the fourth funnel....
  1911  
The Times (1921) VISCOUNTY FOR LORD PIRRIE
The following honours were conferred by the King on the occasion of the opening of the Northern Parliament:--- VISCOUNTY: UNITED KINGDOM. PIRRIE, THE RIGHT HON. BARON, K.P., LL.D., D.L., Ormiston, Strandtown, Belfast.---Valuable s...
23rd June 1921  
New York Times (1918) CHARLES G. ROEBLING, BRIDGE BUILDER., DIES
Engineer and Philanthropist, Head of John A. Roebling's Sons Co. Expires in Trenton at 69 --- Charles Gustavus Roebling, millionaire philanthropist and engineer, who, with his brother, Washington Augustus Roebling, completed the constru...
6th October 1918  
Yorkshire Post (2006) TITANIC THEORY IS TESTED WITH YORKSHIRE HELP
Wrought iron specialist makes duplicates of suspect rivets used in doomed ship's construction for TV programme Chris Benfield FOR nearly 100 years, the blame for the sinking of the Titanic has been split between the iceberg and the man who sailed into it. But tomorrow night, a television documentary made with the help of a Yorkshire blacksmith will argue that faulty workmanship was another factor....
18th September 2006  
Weekly Irish Times (1912) A LINER TO ECLIPSE THE OLYMPIC
A New Leviathan The new Atlantic liner which Messrs Harland and Wolff Limited are building for the White Star Line will eclipse in size and tonnage the Olympic and the ill-fated Titanic. The new vessel will be called the Britannic in ...
21st September 1912  
Belfast Telegraph (2009) CENTENARY TRIBUTE TO TITANIC BUILDERS
The centenary of work beginning on RMS Titanic has been marked by a symbolic keel laying ceremony at Titanic Quarter. John M Andrews, great-nephew of Titanic designer Thomas Andrews and president of Belfast Titanic Society, unveiled a memorial plaque on a replica keel plate which has been erected on the exact spot on the Titanic slipway where construction began in 1909....
1st April 2009  
TIME (2008) REVEALING THE TITANIC'S SECRETS
In his book, Titanic's Last Secrets, Brad Matsen tells the story of wreck divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler and their search for the truth about the Titanic's sinking in 1912. More than just a tragic iceberg crash, the story the divers uncovered is one of bad management, shoddy construction and an ocean liner that sank so quickly that most passengers didn't know what was happening until it was too late. Chatterton and Kohler talk to TIME about deep sea diving, investigating shipwrecks, and the allure of the Titanic....
6th October 2008  
ET Research (2002) WAS THE TITANIC’S RUDDER LARGE ENOUGH?
There have been several times when the question has been raised about whether the Titanic’s rudder was large enough. It has been suggested that if the rudder had been larger she would have turned more quickly and t...
29th September 2002  
New York Times (1910) BUILDING OF GIANT LINERS
Work on the White Star's Olympic and Titanic Proceeds Rapidly The rise and progress of the leviathan liners now building is an absorbing topic of conversation at Belfast, where the rapid advance in their constructio...
10th July 1910  
Cork Examiner (1913) TITANIC GANTRY DESIGNER DIES
Sir W. Arrol "The famous millionaire bridge contractor who has just died. Designed the Tower, Tay and Forth bridges." DEATH OF SIR WM. ARROL Ayr, Thursday. (February 6, 1913) The Press Association ...
8th February 1913  
Irish Times (2009) LIKE THE LINER, BAD LUCK DOGS THE TITANIC SIGNATURE PROJECT
BELFAST BRIEFING: An ambitious attempt to capitalise on the city’s relationship with the Titanic is in deep trouble, writes FRANCESS McDONNELL THERE REMAIN many unanswered questions concerning the fate of one of Belfast’s proud...
14th July 2009  
Inverness Courier (2006) STAN'S 'TITANIC' AMBITION IS A MUSEUM OF THE SEA
11 July, 2006THE Titanic has not sunk - it is all shipshape and has been seen at the entrance to the Caledonian Canal.However, this version is just a tenth the size of the original liner which sank with the loss of 1503 lives ...
11th July 2006  
Newark Evening News (1912) TWO SURVIVORS WERE TO VISIT IN ARLINGTON
Among those reported saved from the wreck of the Titanic are Mrs. Bessie Watt and her daughter, Miss Bertha Watt, of London, England, who were expected to visit Arlington as guests of Mrs. Etta Moore, of 58 Pavonia avenue. They left home to join Mrs...
17th April 1912  
The Times (1899) THOMAS ISMAY HONORED BY CITY OF BELFAST
BELFAST, July 20---Mr. Thomas H. Ismay, chairman of the White Star Line, was to-day presented with the freedom of the city in recognition of his services to Belfast ...
22nd July 1899  
  (2004) COLLINGWOOD
(Akties Collingwood) (Zernichow & O. Gotaas) Arrived at Belfast ( Musgrave Channel) 16 October 1908 from Bangkok via the Azores carrying a cargo of teak wood logs which in a finished sta...
28th November 2004  
New York Herald (1912) MR. W. ROEBLING, 2D, AMONG PASSENGERS
TRENTON, N.J. Monday - Washington Roebling, II a son of Charles G. Roebling, president of the John A. Roebling Sons Company, the Roebling Construction Company and the New Jersey Wire Cloth Company, who was a passenger on board the Titanic, togethe...
17th April 1912  
Weekly Irish Times (1912) BELFAST MEMORIAL DECIDED UPON
Belfast Titanic Memorial The Belfast Titanic Memorial Fund has now reached the handsome sum of £2,500 and the Lady Mayoress and the other members of the General Committee are to be congratulated on the success of their efforts. It is ...
7th September 1912  
New York Times (1889) THE TEUTONIC LAUNCHED
A WHITE STAR STEAMER THAT IS EXPECTED TO BEAT ALL RECORDS --- BELFAST, Jan. 19---The new White Star steamer Teutonic was launched this morning from the Queens Island yard. The companion ship, Majestic, of ...
20th January 1889  
Western People (1912) WHITE STAR LINER TITANIC, 46,326 TONS. THE LARGEST VESSEL IN THE WORLD.
The completion of the "Titanic" at Harland and Wolf's great Belfast Ship-building yard marks a further stage in the progress of British shipping and ship building, and in the development of the White Star Line. The construction of two such notable ve...
13th April 1912  
The Evening Post (1912) BRITISH INQUIRY INTO TITANIC TRAGEDY BEGINS
Based on 26 Questions and Much Like That of Our Senate LONDON, May 2 – Lord Mersey in his capacity as wreck commissioner and five assessors who ...
2nd May 1912  
  (1911) INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS
Norman Harrison (1873-1912) AMIMechE Elected: Associate Member of the Inst...
17th November 1911  
Southern Daily Echo DESIGNERS UNVEILED FOR SOUTHAMPTON'S TITANIC MUSEUM
THE team that will design Southampton’s £15m Titanic museum has been appointed. In a major step forward for the world-class tourist attraction, Southampton City Council has appointed award-winning architects Wilkinson Ey...
   
Sydney Morning Herald (2006) TITANIC BIRTH DRAMA IS PROTRACTED LABOUR
Michael IdatoJune 10, 2006Despite some flaws, this serves as a companion piece to James Cameron's 1997 film Titanic, which follows at 8.40pm and dramatises the final hours of the most famous cruise liner in history (excluding,...
12th June 2006  
Newark Star (1912) MR. STENGEL SENDS WORD HE IS SAFE
Nothing Heard of Three Other Essex Men Who Were on Doomed Ship --- Friends and relatives of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Henry Stengel were rejoiced yesterday when a wireless message was received from Mr. Ivan Stengel stating that his father and ...
18th April 1912  
New York Times (1907) WHITE STAR LINE AFTER CONTINENTAL TRAFFIC
Service to Channel Ports Also to be Installed by Cunard Line --- WILL RIVAL GERMAN BOATS --- Mails to Two-thirds of England and All Scotland and Ireland Will Be Delayed by This Action --- The announcem...
8th January 1907  
The Shipwrecked Mariner Quarterly Maritime Magazine (1882) SHIPBUILDING IN IRELAND
SHIPBUILDING IN IRELAND.-Whatever may be said of other branches of Irish industry, its shipbuilding may, it would appear, compare not unfavourably with that of any other part of the kingdom. The Clyde claims pre-eminence, but Mes...
   
New York Times Book Review (1956) THE LEGENDS STAY AFLOAT
DOWN TO ETERNITY.  By Richard O'Connor. 191 pp. New York:Gold Medal Books. 35 cents. --- By BURKE WILKINSON --- Anyone interested in the Titanic disaster will want to read this book, if only to com...
19th February 1956  
  (2005) LORD CROMER
Departed Stockton-on Tees, England 14 March, 1912 on her maiden voyage bound for Louisburg, Nova Scotia, in ballast. During her crossing she was badly damaged by ice and after 19 days of a voyage which should have taken no mor...
9th January 2005  
Chronicle Herald (2009) BEFORE THE TITANIC : THE SS ATLANTIC
Before the SS Titanic, there was the SS Atlantic, a "state-of-the-art" White Star Line ship going to her grave on April 1, 1873, within sight of the Nova Scotian coast and taking with her a staggering number of lives (over 500). The shee...
18th October 2009  
New York Times (1912) NO WIRELESS ORDER TO HOLD BACK NEWS
Sea Gate Operator Explains the Messages to Bride and Cottam on the Carpathia --- SHIP THEN IN THE HARBOR --- "Keep Your Mouth Shut" Not Official, but Friendly Words of One Operator to Another ---...
27th April 1912  
ET Research (2001) MAURETANIA HISTORY COMES ALIVE IN BRISTOL
There is more for ocean liner enthusiasts in the English city of Bristol than simply visiting the S. S. Great Britain. The world's first great ocean liner, the Great Britain was built by the influential engineer Isambard K...
8th November 2001  
Knoxville News Sentinel (2009) SHIPSHAPE RE-CREATED TITANIC RISES ABOVE THE LANDSCAPE IN PIGEON FORGE
PIGEON FORGE - Half of the world's most famous ill-fated ship is being reconstructed in the Tennessee hills. A 30,000-square-foot replica of the Titanic is being built against the mountain backdrop of Pigeon Forge. The forward half of th...
15th September 2009  
 

 
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